Aslaksen.
Are you quite sure of that, Burgomaster?
Burgomaster.
I have positive information. So if these extensive alterations are called for, the town itself will have to bear the cost.
Aslaksen.
Oh, plague take it all—I beg your pardon!—but this is quite another matter, Mr. Hovstad.
Hovstad.
Yes, it certainly is.
Burgomaster.
The worst of it is, that we shall be obliged to close the establishment for a couple of years.